November 2008
“I will no doubt be taken to task for criticizing the work of children, but as...”
– This American life #87: A Very Special Sedaris Christmas, an entire show dedicated to the christmas stories of David Sedaris. Great stuff.
I’ve been on a documentary spree. I know its been a joke amongst us before but really. It’s silly. Something needs to be done, I realized this after watching Bukowski: Born into This yesterday. So here’s my idea: put Bono in an embargo. If it’s too expensive to guard him with the military or if he has some clause in his contract with whomever it might be that he must appear...
Since the documentary evenings more or less have disbanded due to geographical challenges, I sat down earlier today by my lonesome and watched Visions of Light. (Not that this would have affected anything, it violated the arbitrary documentary rules anyways by being about movies. But you guys, you should watch this too.)
A bunch of cinematographers talking about how they and others shoot movies...
Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife →
Not sure where I found it, so if you suspect it was from you then I’m so fucking sorry, but the important bit is to watch. This is the BBC thing from 1994 — here split in six parts and totals about on an hour — that focuses on the person and not so much on his stories (even though it’s there as well, you can’t really separate the works from the author). His wives and Terry...
ephemeron:
Four hours of sleep. Surprisingly rested but I feel like I could pass out again from laying down. The smell of cold is like a swift kick to the face.
It’s hard to combine being awake late nights (both voluntarily and through insomnia) and early mornings, the world is a bit faulty in its design I think…
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Can't fall down any further
Since I was really stupid I didn’t have any cash with me to the Okkervil River gig. So despite her wonderful promotion of why we should buy an album or EP — they had gotten a speeding ticket or something like that and it was quite expensive — I couldn’t buy any CALLmeKAT things. But I’ve fixed that now.
Her first “proper” record, Fall Down, arrived this morning....
WatchSpike Jonze:
that was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype
Seriously. That’s a test-shoot? Fuck, I’m already more excited about this than that Whatchmen...
Noises I’ve made today.
Kgnnn.
Sigh.
Pffffffu.
Chk.
Hrrk.
Pluuuh.
Most of the have been nasal sounds. You can imagne how they sound outwards, but wrom inside my head this was how they appeared.
It’s horrible. Hor-rib-le. I’m fairly sure this is in the book of Revelations®, next to that funny-looking sheep and the obscenely hot weather. But right now, I can’t charge the battery I use in my camera. Mainly my own fault, I agree if I was agreeable, but I’m not. I forgot it in Stockholm. Hopefully it’s in the mail, but I miss the clicks and the wzzzz and the...
This American Life: 223 / Classifieds →
Working my way through the This American Life radioshow — after getting seriously hooked on the tv-show earlier this year and rewatching the first season in Stockholm last week. I needed more Ira Glass. I’ve heard a few right now, but this one is my favorite so far. Not only because Jon Langford of the mighty Mekons is in it, but… It’s just damn fun and good and everything.
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CALLmeKAT — Not Awake
I should probably post...
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“I would say I watch a lot of kids TV, yeah. I think Spongebob’s one of the...”
– Jon Langford: Mekons on film. Two movies next year, must get!
It feels odd not to be able to update with nu photos at will. The big downsida in shooting in RAW, most people you visit lacks the proper software to edit them. But I got quite a few more to upload when I get home. More from Okkervil River — some of them rather splendid if I may honk my own trumpet. But the first thing I’ll probably do when I get home is to play the Mekons...
Expensive beer is best if it’s free. Or, if you find out the price while you sample it from someone else, just decides then and there to just drink the rest of the bottle. Anyways, it’s cold outside, real cold. My ears went poing from the air, that’s the trouble with the Hat®. It doesn’t cover the ears properly. The music in the form of Frida Hyvönen’s new album was a...